Button-fastener



G. F. ARMSTRONG.

BUTTON FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULYv 19. 1920- 1,401,232. I Patented 1180.27, 1921.

6! HEMJ T/PO N6 INVENTOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. ARMSTRONG, 0F SIOUX CITY, IOWA.

BUTTON-FASTENER.

To all to ham it may concern Be it known that I, G nonen F. Amrs'rmmo, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sioux City, in the county of VVoodbury and EJtate of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Button- Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object the production of an improved fastener for securing buttons to goods embodying certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts, adapting it to be readily applied and firmly secure the button to the goods.

A further object of the invention is the production of a button fastener inexpensive in construction and thoroughly dependable in use.

l/Vith these and other objects in view, the invention, consisting in the construction, combination, and novel arrangement of parts, will be fully understood from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application and in which like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views, of which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the device as applied to a button, and Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof.

Referring, now, to the illustrations, 11 represents the goods and 3 a conventional form of button, having central openings, 4:. On the side of the goods remote from the button is a concavo-conveX disk, 6, placed with its concave side adjacent the goods and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 27, 1921. 1920. Serial No. 397,248.

provided on its rear or convex side with a central depression, 10, provided with openings, 7. 5 is a U-shaped wire, which is inserted through the openings, 4, of the but ton and extended through the goods, 11, and the openings, 7, of the disk. The end portions of the wire are then twisted firmly together, as at 8, within the depression, 10, and then are bent laterally into a notch, 9, in the periphery of the disk, and then wound in opposite directions around the wire under the disk, thus concealing the ends of the wire.

This construction, it is evident, is inexpensive in manufacture, readily applied, and dependably secures the button to the goods.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is:

A fastener for securing buttons to goods, consisting of a concavo-convex disk adapted to be placed with its concave side against the goods opposite the button, and having a central depressed portion in the convex side, provided with two openings and a U-shaped wire adapted to be inserted through the button, goods and said openings, the disk being notched peripherally, whereby the end portions of the wire may be twisted together within the recess, then bent laterally into the notched periphery, and then wound in opposite directions around the wire between the goods and disk.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of July, 1920.

GEORGE F. ARMSTRONG. 

